Month: May 2012

Blind man implanted with CCD and hungry black hole swallowing a star.

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A blind man has been fitted with a cybernetic implant, a microchip implanted on his retina, allowing him limited vision. This is the beginning of a future where the blind can see again with cybernetic implants meaning such a disability will not be permanent in the future. The implants at the moment do not have … Read more

Linux nostalgia posting. Looking back at the old Linux goodness.

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The SUSE Yast configuration panel had many features for configuring every aspect of your Linux system. I wish that the modern Linux distributions like Ubuntu & Mint would have something like this. The Mandrake Linux 9.2 distribution had the Drakconf control panel that was also very comprehensive in terms of all the various hardware you … Read more

Installing printers with the CUPS web interface in Debian Linux.

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I recently had to add a printer to my Debian System and the System Settings -> printers dialog in the Gnome 3 System Settings application would not detect my Canon MP150 printer. Therefore, I started the CUPS interface by visiting: http://localhost:631 in my web browser and I was then able to add my printer. This … Read more

IT security management very critical in these dangerous times.

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With the many security issues that many businesses are dealing with these days, a managed security plan is vital to make sure that private company information is not leaked by malicious software and viruses. The services of  managed IT services Melbourne can ensure that your business can run smoothly and you can rest easy knowing … Read more

Listing hardware on a Linux system. And using the UUID drive identifiers.

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Listing hardware on a Linux system. This is easy when using the Linux command-line. In the olden days, you would use the cat /proc/pci command to list hardware installed on the PCI bus, but this /proc file is deprecated and does not exist on modern Linux systems. The lspci command is the modern way to … Read more

Using the tar command on Debian Linux.

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The Linux shell offers many ways to compress files for backup. The tar or tape archive program will concantenate many files into one. tar –create –verbose myfile.tar file1 file2 file3 file4tar –create –verbose myfile.tar file1 file2 file3 file4 Then you may use either the gzip or bzip commands to compress the myfile.tar file you have … Read more